Description:

"Life is too short to build something nobody wants" - Ash Maurya

The accelerated rate of change brought about by the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of today's world requires a value driven, iterative, and adaptive approach to requirements and planning.  

This popular, hands-on workshop offers participants the first-hand knowledge, experience, and confidence to tackle the delivery of products and services using an outcome based, value driven and adaptive approach.  This 2-day experiential journey has participants engaged in solving a real-world problem using creative, collaborative and engaging techniques to transform a vision to create valuable outcomes for the customer, facilitate short feedback loops and adopt an adaptive, iterative and incremental approach. 

Expect to leave experiencing a shift in your mindset!

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand what is needed to take a value driven and adaptive approach to enable faster time to market and customer delight.
• Differentiate between the roles of Product Manager, Product Owner and Business Analyst in discovering and communicating value.
• Articulate how an adaptive planning approach affects all layers of the planning cycle.
• Learn how to effectively elicit requirements and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Practice effective planning techniques from vision to defining iterative and incremental value delivery.
• Incorporate effective feedback loops for validated learning.
• Apply effective techniques to manage and track discovery work.

Learn value driven and adaptive techniques including:

• Creating a Shared Vision
• Defining Business Value and Customer Value
• Developing Customer Empathy through Personas and Customer Journey Maps
• Identifying and articulating opportunities through Impact Mapping & Story Mapping
• Applying appropriate models for prioritization and early realization of value
• Identifying MVP and alternatives to traditional roadmaps
• Validating value creation with qualitative and quantitative actionable metrics

Target Audience: 

Anyone responsible for defining value for an organization and wants to develop the mindset and hands on skills and techniques for taking a value driven and adaptive approach.

Recommended for but not limited to:  Product Managers, Product Owners, Business / Functional / Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Agile leaders, Project Managers, Executives and 

Training Includes:

• A class workbook & take-away tips, tricks and techiques
• Certificate of Completion
• Refreshments

Learning Credits:

• 14 PDUs for PMI
• 14 SEUs for Scrum Alliance

Facilitator: 

Anjali Leon is a sought after Agility Coach and Educator with a track record of successfully introducing Design Thinking, and Lean and Agile principles and practices in a variety of industries including high-tech, energy, education, healthcare, retail, and government. Her experience as an Agile Practitioner and her prior experience in technical and leadership roles give her the unique perspective of the delicate balance between rigor and flexibility necessary for organizations to be agile and remain competitive.

Anjali infuses her classes with emerging thought leadership and stories from real life experience. Her interactive, participatory and engaging teaching style, and Training from the Back of the Room techniques create an experience that not only leave her learners feeling inspired, knowledgeable, and competent but energized and eager to put their learning into practice. Her students often claim that they look forward to the next time they can attend one of her classes!

Credentials:  Electrical and Computer Engineering (Drexel University), Co-Active Coach Training (CTI), PMP (PMI), CSM, CSPO, CSP (Scrum Alliance), PSK (Scrum.org), ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC (ICAgile), KMP (Kanban), SPC (Scaled Agile Institute), AHF (Agility Health Facilitator)

National Speaker, Community Organizer, Connector, Change Maker.

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-leon-a97b636

Cancellation Policy:

Organizer reserves the right to cancel the class with a full refund.

Cancellation before October 4, 2019 will receive a full refund (minus Eventbrite fees)

Cancellations within between October 4 and October 16, 2019 will receive a 50% refund or full credit towards a future class (minus Eventbrite fees) 

No refund for cancellations after October 16, 2019

Building Community and Giving Back:

Be a part of building community!  PPL is committed to giving back to the South Florida community.  

For a public training offered by PPL, we reserve some free and discounted spots.   If you are a person in transition or a full-time student interested in this class, or you work for a non-profit organization, contact Anjali at aleon@ppl-coach.com and learn how you can reserve one of these spots.

Your company can be part of the #buildcommunity initiative!  Any company that purchases 2 tickets unlocks a free slot for someone in transition (between jobs) or a full-time student.